The new Cat® 303E CR mini hydraulic excavator, only 61 inches (1 550 mm) wide across the blade and having a compact-radius design that limits tail swing to less than 5 inches (127 mm), is an easily transported machine that works efficiently and safely in small spaces and on congested job sites. With
Reach Subsea has entered into a 3-year contract with Eidesvik Offshore for provision of ROV services on Viking TBN, a subsea construction vessel to be delivered from Kleven Yard in March 2015. The scope of services from Reach Subsea include two new work ROVs with full crewing, and is expected to yie
DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) has announced the purchase of high performance computing (HPC) hardware for improving the rate of discovery and analysis for oil and gas exploration from SGI. According to the company’s statement, the SGI custom solution, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Xeo
WGP Survey, in partnership with TGS Nopec AS, has completed 2014’s multi-client/proprietary survey of prospects in the Barents Sea region. The survey was conducted using the P-Cable system onboard the ‘Bergen Surveyor’, prior to the 23rd license round that is expected to be announced shortly. The ra
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed two offshore projects for China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC) with support from Acteon sister companies in the Panyu and Enping fields, Pearl River Mouth basin, South China Sea. To extend the life of the Hai Yang Shi You III FPSO, the first
WGP continues to operate Statoil’s Dual Portable Modular Source System (D-PMSS), designed and built by WGP and mobilised on the ‘Siddis Sailor’, on the third Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) survey in the North Sea. Survey 3 is the first where Grane and Snorre fields will be shot consecutively,
ArcelorMittal’s heavy plate mill in Gijón (Asturias, Spain) will supply more than 5,000 tonnes of steel plates to help build a floating hotel for 700 people. The huge residential complex is being built by the Spanish shipyard Navantia for the Mexican oil company Pemex, which will use the floatin
Subsea Project Management Specialist, Petrex have successfully supported the CNRI Subsea Project Team on their installation of a Multiphase Booster Pump (MPBP) at the Lyell subsea field. Petrex acted as the CNRI interface for the day to day project management of the MPBP vendor, umbilical splice ven
Ping DSP has named SUBSEA 20/20, Inc. the first authorized sales agency to represent their new line of 3D Sidescan sonar systems. After several years of research, product development and testing, Ping DSP recently introduced the first true 3D Sidescan. The company’s 3DSS sonar is based on patented C
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed two major offshore campaigns for China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC) with support from Acteon sister companies in the Panyu and Enping fields, Pearl River Mouth basin, South China Sea. To extend the life of the Hai Yang Shi You III FPSO, the
HR Wallingford new sate-of-the-art maritime simulation and modeling facilities, the Fast Flow Facility and the UK Ship Simulation Centre, will be formally opened by Lord Michael Heseltine at Howbery Business Park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire on 30 October. The new Fast Flow Facility is one of the wor
A new NOAA online visualization and mapping tool, the Lake Level Viewer, will help communities along the U.S. Great Lakes plan for, and adapt to, climate change and changes in lake water levels. The easy-to-use, interactive tool was developed by the National Ocean Service’s Office for Coastal Manage
SBM Offshore has announced the launch of two companies, Imodco Terminals S.A. and Imodco Services S.A. To meet the challenges of the dynamic market for CALM Terminals and after sales services, two independent entities fully dedicated to this business have been created, SBM said. Building upon SBM’s
Eni Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Italian oil giant Eni, is working on what they say is the world’s first center providing training for oil spill response in conditions of darkness. To make it work, Eni Norge has entered into an oil spill contingency training agreement with the Nordkapp Mar
